Storm-door.



B. H. GEDGE.

STORM DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22. me.

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BURTON HERBERT GEDGE, ANDERSON, INDIANA.

STORM-DOOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1917.

Application led March 22, 1916. Serial No. 85,767.-

which can easily be put up and taken down withoutV expert labor.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Figure 1 is aperspective view of a storm door embodying my invention, showing itsapplication to the' outer door of a house; Fig. 2 is a perspective viewof such',

a storm door from the rear, with parts broken away to show theconstruction; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through a storm door,showing its application to a house door of more than ordinary width;Fig. 4 is a detail of one end of one of the top spacing rods; Fig. 5 isadetail of the mounting at one end of one of the bottom spacing rods;Fig. 6 is a detail of one of the lower front corners of the lstorm door;Fig. 7 is a detail of one of the angle irons used at such lower frontcorner; Fig. 8 is a perspective view of one of the upper corner edges ofthe storm door, illustrating its adaptability for house doors ofdifferent width and height; Fig. 9 is a detail of a preferred form ofattachment for the lower edges of the side walls; Fig. 10 is ahorizontal section illustrating a modified form of construction; andFig. 11

is a perspective view of one oftheunit side portions and a part of thetop unit portion of the structure shown in Fig. 10.

The house wall 10 with its outer door frame 11, its porch floor 12, andits porch roof 13 are of any usual type. Y Y

My storm door has a door frame 20 within which is hung a hinged door 21.At each upper corner this door frame 20 is provided with a verticallyeXtensible brace arm 22, which is adjusted so that its upper end bearsagainst the porch roof 13 and is then fastened to the edges of the doorframe 20 by screws. The upper ends of the brace arms 22 have rearwardlyprojecting ngers 23 for bearing against the porch roof and fitting intostaples or eyes 23 fixed to such roof, for holding the door frameagainst lateral rearward movements and facilitating putting up andtaking down. At each lower corner, the door frame is provided with anangle iron 24, which may be provided with downwardly projecting pins 25,which fit into suitable holes in the porch iioor; these pinsconveniently being put in place first with the door frame slantingforward and the door frame then being tilted to bring the fingers 23 atthe tops of the brace arms 22 into the staples or eyes 23.

The door frame 20 is conveniently made of two layers of boards, asapparent from Figs. 2, 6, and 10; the inner layer being inwardly offsetso as to provide an inner shoulder for the door 21 to abut against, asapparent from Fig. 10, and an outer shoulder 26 which is behind theouter layer of boards, as clear from Figs. 2 and 6. The angle iron 24fits against the lowerv end of this outer shoulder 26.

The door frame 20 is suitably spaced forward from the house wall 10, infront of the house door formed by the door frame 11, and the interveningspace between the house door frame 11 and the storm door frame 2O iscovered at the sides and at the top with canvas walls 27 and a canvasceiling 28, to form an inclosed vestibule. This spacing and the supportfor` the canvas walls and ceiling may be provided in different manners.

In the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2, upper spacing rods 29 andlower spacing rods 30 form the spacing and the support for the canvaswalls and ceiling. Each upper spacing rod 29 is preferably made of awooden bar 31 set in a sheet metal angle iron 32 having a hook 33 at itsforward end and a down-turned finger 34 at its rear end for projectingdownward into an eye 35 Xed on the back of the storm door frame 20 andthe frontof the house door frame 11 or house wall 10 respectively, sothat the forward ends of the spacing bars 29 are carried bysuch stormdoor frame and the rear ends are detachably fastened to the house wall.This makes a very strong construction, and facilitates putting up andtaking down, the fingers 34 when in place in their staples 35 lockingthe ngers 23 in the staples or eyes 23 and holding the frame againstforward movement. Each lower spacing bar is of greater height thanthickness, is conveniently fastened at its rear end in a socket 36having ears 37 for attachment to the house wall 10 or door frame 11, andat its forward end has a tongue which extends into a socket formedbetween the angle iron 24, the lower end of the inner' vertical board atthe side of the doorway, and the end of the door sill 38, as clear fromFigs. 2 and 6. In addition, if desired, the lower spacing rods 30 may befastened to the porch ioor 12, as by screws 39. If desired, the doorsill 38 may be similarly fastened to the porch floor.

The canvas walls 27 and the canvas ceiling 28 are preferably all in asingle piece of fabric, and may be either permanently or removablyfastened to the shoulder 26 and to the lower spacing bars 30, but ispreferably merely stretched over the upper spacing bars 29. In practice,I prefer to make the fastening permanent on such shoulder 26, as bytacking, and detachable on the lower spacing bars 30, as for instance byturn buttons 42 such as are used for fastening on the curtains ofcarriages or automobiles, as clear from Fig. 2; these turn buttons 42are attached to the lower spacing rods 30 after the latter have beenlaid to conform to the slant of the porch floor l2, and are suflicientlyhigh so that the lower edge of the fabric is well clear of the porchfloor, so that it will not be'wetted by water on such porch floor. Thecanvas ceiling 28 may be provided with a sewed-on up-turned flap 43 atits rear end, for similar fastening to the lintel of the door frame l1by turn buttons 42, as clear from Figs. l, 2, and 8. Similar flaps 44may also be provided on ythe rear edges of the side walls 27, andsimilarly fastened to the uprights of the door frame l1, as clear fromFig. 8. Preferably the rear edge of each side wall 27 has attachedthereto a vertical wooden strip 45, which may be fastened against thehouse wall by screws passing through screw holes 46 in such strip. Ifthe house door frame 11 is of approximately the same width as the stormdoor frame 20, or wider, the fia-ps 44 are turned outward, as shown inFig. 8, but if it is narrower the flaps 44 may be turned inward, asshown in Fig. 3. Instead of using turn buttons 42 for fastening thelower edges of the side walls 27 to the lower spacing bars 30, vsuchlower edges may be provided with hems 47, which lie on the outside ofthelower spacingfbars 30 at a suflicient height above the porch floor toprevent wetting ltherefrom l and mayor may not be fastened thereto, and

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preferably have metal or wooden rods 48 therein; and are also preferablyprovided near such lower edges with an interior tuck 49, for receivingstrips of wood or metal 50 which may be fastened to the spacing bars 30by screen door hooks 51, thus producing an even pull on the fabric andpreventing wrinkling.

Instead of having the ceiling 28 and side walls 27 of one piece andattached to mere spacing bars, as in the arrangement shown in Fig. 2,they may be permanently fastened t0 separate frames 52 and 53, like theframes of screens, and these separate frames may be fastened in place,as against the shoulders 26 and the edges of the house door frame ll, byordinary screen door hooks 54 crossing the inside corners of thecompleted structure at an angle, as clear from Figs. 10 and 11.

The frames 52 and 53 form the spacing and bracing means for the doorframe 20.l

I claim as my invention:

l. A storm door, comprising a door frame, a door mounted'therein, saiddoor frame being provided with downwardly projecting pins for projectinginto holes in the porch lioor and with rearwardly projecting fingers forprojecting rearwardly into eyes in the porch ceiling, spacing bars frompoints on the door frame, said spacing bars being provided withdownwardly projecting fingers for projecting downwardly into eyes on thehouse wall, and canvas walls and ceiling mounted on said door frame andspacing bars.

2. A storm door, comprising aldoor frame, a door mounted therein, saiddoor frame being provided with downwardly projecting pins for projectingintov holes in the porch iioor and with fingers for projecting into4eyes in the porch ceiling, spacing bars from points on the door frame,said spacing` bars being provided with fingers for projecting into eyeson the house wall, and canvas walls and ceiling mounted on said doorframe and spacing bars.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis,Indiana, this fourteenth day of March, A. D. onethousand nine hundredand sixteen.

BURTON HERBERT Genen.

Washington, D. C.

